A former Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Bisi Akande, has alleged that the . Chairman of the
party, John Odigie-Oyegun, went about bribing people to facilitate his tenure
elongation.
Akande said this while describing
tenure elongation as the worst corruption in the world, adding that anyone
involved in it is corrupt.
President Muhammadu Buhari had
earlier declared that the move to elongate the tenure of Oyegun and others was
illegal.
Also during the week, Governors
elected under the party met and decided that the party holds its convention to
elect new leaders.
Speaking with the Sun, Akande, a
former governor, wondered why a leader would not want to step down when their
tenure was over.
He said, “Tenure elongation is
the worst corruption in the world. Anybody who is on a sit and doesn’t want to
leave that sit in a political appointment must be a corrupt person.
“The worst act of corruption is
tenure elongation. I don’t believe in tenure elongation. Anybody arguing in
favour of tenure elongation, if you look at that person very well, that person
is involved in corruption.
“If he or she has not been
caught, such a person would be caught one day. I was once a national chairman,
if I should say that I don’t want to go, why? What is in it?
“What is the pot of honey that is
placed there that would not let me to go? I was once a governor, why shouldn’t
I leave after my tenure? If you are so insulted and not confident enough to
resign, you must be a corrupt person.
“Tenure elongation is a shameful
thing. How can you say you want to sit tight? I even understood that they were
bribing people from all over the states to agree to this tenure elongation
scheme.
“I also understood that the
tenure ‘elongator’ said that if there is no tenure elongation, he would scatter
the party. They will all get scattered, before they scatter the party.
“APC is the party of Nigerians,
not few people can scatter it. Tenure elongation is bad, it is killing our
party, I am a member of the executive caucus of the APC, for almost a year and
half, there has been no meeting of the national executive committee of the
party.
“Politics means mobilization;
mobilization at ward, local, state and at the federal level. Mobilization
involves meetings, rallies, elections, congresses and things like that.
“But when you are sitting down in
one place mobilizing nothing and you want to remain there to continue to
elongate your stay, the party, which is the platform that put you there, would
die while such a person is still there. Only mobilizers can lead parties like
the APC, not tenure ‘elongators!’
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